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Sean Braisted pokes a hole in the conventional wisdom that John McCain is a more known quantity to the American public than Barack Obama:

Howard Fineman in Newsweek gives an oft-repeated, yet mistaken point of view on our electoral situation:

We know John McCain: as formed and familiar as a well-worn boot. But we don't know Barack Obama very well, and getting to know him has been and remains the basic national task of 2008.

Former Republican U.S. Senator Lincoln Chaffee says that Lamar Alexander has to save the GOP on the environment:

The GOP faces a potential blowout in November on a myriad of issues - Iraq, the economy, gas prices - and, certainly, its insensitivity to environmental issues.

From Congressman Blackburn's office

Illegal Immigration

Longest blog post title ever…

The bill was HB 1652, and you can read the history of how we got here in an earlier post.

New legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, would protect bloggers from Federal Election Commission restrictions. The "Blogger Protection Act of 2008," (H.R.5699) would give bloggers permanent protection from FEC campaign laws when linking to campaign Web sites or editorializing about candidates.

On the one hand, I believe that the local community should have influence over whether halfway houses go in neighborhoods.

Evangelicals aren’t surrendering yet on the abortion issue in the state legislature, even though their resolution failed in a House subcommittee last week.

The Tennessee Family Action Council’s David Fowler is telling Republican lawmakers who voted for Jimmy Naifeh as House speaker to urge Naifeh to resurrect the resolution and allow a floor vote on it.

Terry Frank comments on the almost unanimous sponsorship by the Tennessee delegation of an omnibus immigration bill which would require employers to make sure their workers were legal:

With the exception of Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Memphis), all of Tennessee’s U.S. Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors to the SAVE Act.

The level of spin from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is astounding. I mean, it’s obvious they have zero political clout outside a few cities and, generally, people aren’t on their side. So, when live hands you crap, make crap-ade. They’re taking credit for the NICS improvement bill, which was written by NRA without Brady input. And some bills with few co-sponsors have been brought u